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MP Eleanor Laing has asked Essex County Council to light a Loughton junction at night following crashes

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"There are various reasons in various areas that should mean the street lights get turned back on. Vehicle crime for one, assaults another but if we are all told that the cuts just have to be then there is nothing stopping these residents putting an outside light up is there?

Others have done it."

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Eleanor Laing MP has joined calls to reinstate lighting at a junction where cars have recently crashed into houses.

Two properties in Lower Park Road in Loughton were hit by cars on February 23 and March 3.

A petition was started by residents demanding traffic calming measures be immediately implemented.

Essex County Council agreed to update road markings and replace signage, but stressed that these were not to blame for the crashes.

No decisions have been made on whether street lights will remain on overnight.

They are currently turned off as part of a county-wide scheme to save money.

Eleanor Laing believes the area should be treated as a special case.

In a letter to Cllr Rodney Bass, who is behind the £1.5m cost cutting scheme, she said there were ‘exceptional’ circumstances.

She said: “The junction in question clearly requires to be lit. I appreciate the difficulties we are all facing as regard to the cost of street lights and I fully understand why Essex County Council has decided to limit the times when street lights are on.

“This, however, is an exceptional set of circumstances. There is a clear case for twenty four hour lighting for the five street lights which directly affect this dangerous junction.

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